Banking & Finance  July 25, 2016

Brad Feld kicks off entrepreneurs-network campaign with $100K gift

BOULDER —  Brad Feld, a national venture capital investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has committed $100,000 to kick off the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado’s new capital campaign.

The network is designed to support entrepreneurs, create jobs and stimulate economic growth in targeted regions of the country by leveraging the resources and intellectual capital of the Blackstone Group, a global investment firm based in New York.

Feld is a resident of Boulder, a managing director of the Boulder-based investment firm Foundry Group and a co-founder of Techstars, a national accelerator program for startups founded in Boulder that has its own investment arm.

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BEN Colorado, formed in 2014, is funded by a $3 million gift to the University of Colorado Boulder, part of a three-year grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. BEN Colorado is hosted at CU’s Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Blackstone identified Colorado as a vibrant entrepreneurial region needing better connections between its various high-growth industries and geographies.

The current network of BEN Colorado’s 70 companies employed more than 6,000 people and generated more than $1.4 billion in revenue last year.

“BEN Colorado exemplifies the transformation that can happen when local communities collaborate to tackle big problems,” said Steve Schwarzman, chairman, chief executive and co-founder of Blackstone. “Brad Feld shares Blackstone’s mission, and we thank him for his tireless efforts helping entrepreneurs build the innovative, successful companies Colorado needs to ensure future growth.”

Amy Stursberg, executive director of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, said Feld has been an advocate of the BEN Colorado program since its inception, and this gift is the cornerstone in a campaign that will develop a sustainable program in support of furthering entrepreneurship and job growth in Colorado.

Learn more at: www.bencolorado.org.

BOULDER —  Brad Feld, a national venture capital investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, has committed $100,000 to kick off the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado’s new capital campaign.

The network is designed to support entrepreneurs, create jobs and stimulate economic growth in targeted regions of the country by leveraging the resources and intellectual capital of the Blackstone Group, a global investment firm based in New York.

Feld is a resident of Boulder, a managing director of the Boulder-based investment firm Foundry Group and a co-founder of Techstars, a national accelerator program for startups founded in Boulder that has its own investment arm.

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